Based on a true story, Spielberg’s new movie is powerful, gritty and political. Set during the Cold War, it follows insurance lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) as he’s offered a case unlike any other: defending a convicted Russian spy, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). At first reluctant, Donovan accepts the case as the CIA starts to … Continue reading
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Mini Germany Tour
As a half-German, I’ve been around my motherland a few times, but mainly in the southern half. As a child/teenager I’d been to Munich, Bonn, Cologne, Aschaffenburg, Mittenwald and Wiesbaden, where my family lives. So when I was invited to a wedding in Melle, which is a small town between Hanover and Osnabrück, I thought … Continue reading